Space Food, Malted Milk Tablets, Mercury, Friendship 7
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Louis Jokay
- Summary
- Malted milk tablets, a popular and easily digestable food product, were sent into space with John Glenn on his Friendship 7 Mercury flight on February 20, 1962. In addition to applesauce, Glenn ate some of these tablets to determine the ease with which astronauts could chew and swallow foods in microgravity environments. The experiments were successful and proved most any food could be consumed in space if packaged appropriately.
- NASA transferred these tablets to the Museum with the Friendship 7 spacecraft in 1963.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA
- Inventory Number
- A19670207000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Food & Food Accessories
- Materials
- Metal, velcro, malted milk tablets
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 12.7 x 2.5cm (5 x 1 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19670207000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv95345787b-73ee-4b02-a99b-0fb09058eed0
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